Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 24, 2010
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Snake legs! Many species of anaconda, boa and python snakes have spurs protruding from their bodies- the vestigial remnants of hind legs! 34-year-old buddhist monk Endo Mitsunaga completed the sennichi kaihogyo, a thousand days of meditation and walking around Mount Hiei, Japan, in 2009. He walked 26 miles a day, for periods of 100 or 200 days at a time! Spit from pedestrians who cross the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, India, has had such a corrosive effect that the structure's metal pillar coverings have lost 50% of their strength over the past 3 years.